Symptoms of decay

Nepal, Jan. 13 -- Political parties, parliamentarians and government ministers feature as the most distrustful institutions in almost all surveys

From the very start, I have been arguing that the government's two-thirds majority claim is nothing more than political match fixing, that the two-headed communist unification is a sham and that Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli serving for a full five-year term is elusive. It will be a New Year greeting if his administration manages to remain intact in 2019.

There is already a widespread disbelief, discontent and disenchantment with the government's lacklustre performance. The government is as fragile as the PM's health and as volatile as Prachanda's speech. The catch phrase "prosperous Nepal, ha...